More promising were neoplatonic aitiological arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Amputee] Reference
Ibn Gabirol's Fons Vitae certainly belongs to the neoplatonic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
“Aristotelians” and all of the rest who, as a rule, are labeled neoplatonic. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
Porphyry, who started the neoplatonic tradition of commentaries on Aristotle at the end of the. From Wordnik.com. [David] Reference
It is therefore appropriate to take note of Ibn Ezra's divergence from some widely accepted neoplatonic teachings. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
This dual meaning can be traced back to Proclus, and its usage highlights the neoplatonic trend in Ibn Ezra's thought. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
However, Greive is well-aware that the presence of neoplatonic teachings in Ibn Ezra's writings does not mean that Ibn Ezra's allegiance was limited to that school exclusively. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
Perhaps what Proclus (or his source) read is that the One is ˜above™ being and that from which being derives, and, given his neoplatonic mindset, unhesitatingly thought ˜better than™. From Wordnik.com. [Speusippus] Reference
So have other approaches become relics of a bygone culture, for example the neoconservative dream of the 'medieval concept of order,' which pervades Otto von Simson's book on the Gothic cathedral, and the neoplatonic reading of 'Early Netherlandish Painting' by which Erwin Panofsky identified 'disguised symbolism' in many works of art. From Wordnik.com. [Images Behind the Wall] Reference
Why do we quote all these old monkish and neoplatonic legends?. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Leaders] Reference
In spite of that they were just as aesthetically neoplatonic oriented as their German colleges. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Her pupil Synesius of Cyrene - a character in the film - leaves traces of her neoplatonic philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
As a philosopher Porphyry was chiefly important as the immediate successor of Plotinus in the neoplatonic school at Rome, but his. From Wordnik.com. [Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes] Reference
What is the pressure that makes neoplatonic gossips of the fourth century circulate the same marvels as spiritualist gossips of the nineteenth?. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Leaders] Reference
He conceived a kind of hermetical or neoplatonic godhead creating in more and more eccentric circles, until the last, which rose in contradiction, was Lucifer to whom creation was committed. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
This phenomenon recalls the popularity around the turn of the century of Omar Khayyam, another medieval Persian poet, who, however, was known for being a closet atheist, cynic and libertine rather than a neoplatonic mystic and moralist like Rumi. From Wordnik.com. [Informed Comment] Reference
And he then admitted that since Elijah Muhammad's place of origin (North Africa) made him an unlikely Druzim, he very well could have been part of some other Ismaili sect that had picked up some neoplatonic ideas that had been floating around the desert. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
In neoplatonic philosophy the light is conceived as the externalization of the divine, that allows the "One" (the platonic idea of a perfect chosmos, an ordered universe) to be comunicated by means of the irradiation of the celestial intelligences and to be set in touch with the sensible world. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
One can trace the beginnings of such a way of conceiving of divine causality as far back as Bonaventure and Duns Scotus, but it displaced an older and essentially neoplatonic way of looking at things, still holding good for Aquinas, in which the divine cause was a higher ‘influence’ which ‘flowed into ’ finite levels of causation, entirely shaping them from within, but not ‘influencing’ them or conditioning them on the same plane of univocal being, as a less metaphorically-rooted meaning of ‘influence’ tends to imply. From Wordnik.com. [A John Milbank paper] Reference
I’m of the Botticelliesque neoplatonic school of philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [One word (annotated) | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr] Reference
“neoplatonic” also on the strength of his deep involvement in astrology and arithmology, as well as his deep longing for release from this world. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Ibn Ezra] Reference
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